Sipsey Street Irregulars: Okay, so tell me again why the NRA didn't oppose B. Toad Jones when we were so close to victory?

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Okay, so tell me again why the NRA didn't oppose B. Toad Jones when we were so close to victory?

New ATF chief considered giving up the fight during bruising confirmation process

Under withering attack during the nomination fight, Jones considered throwing in the towel.

The ATF, of which he was acting director, was caught in political crossfire over gun control. And there were personal attacks on Jones, both in his role at ATF and as U.S. attorney for Minnesota. . .

“And there were junctures where I was like, ‘OK, why am I doing this again?’ ”

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Black Rifle said...: i don't believe for one second that he was going to throw in the towel. this is about drumming up some "awww, geeee, i feel so sorry for him"; September 22, 2013 at 9:48 AM
Anonymous said...: The NRA is on the side of government control over individual liberty. With its help, governments are imposing ever increasing "training" requirements in order to exercise our rights and it just so happens the NRA does that "training" for huge FEES of course. Ahem poll taxes.

Ironic huh that forcing training in order to exercise the right has the TRUTHFUL meaning of the Second Amendment EXACTLY BACKWARD?! The RIGHT self declares that it shall not be infringed IN ORDER FOR THE MILITIA TO BE WELL REGULATED when called forth. It's BECAUSE of NRA supported government control that many ate NOT proficient and practiced -As they stand down their rights as a result of the permission slip requirements.

The NRA loves this nomination and appointment. This way the painted picture can continue of the ATF and NRA being opposites when really they are symbiotic parasites that require each other to survive. Of course they will work in concert to ensure both flourish- as we the people THE HOSTS are bled out in the process; September 22, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Anonymous said...: The NRA likes to talk pro-2A and yes they have done a few good things but this past session in the Illinois General Assembly they made a deal to allow “Universal Background Checks” so they could get a “Preemption” agreement in the CC bill.

They supported the Bill over the objections of the State Rifle Association!

That’s a line the NRA should never cross but they morons did. I am calling for the NRA lobbyist from Illinois to be fired; September 22, 2013 at 11:42 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Okay, so tell me again why the NRA didn't oppose B. Toad Jones when we were so close to victory?

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